Acts 14:19

And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. AND - rather, 'But' [ de (G1161)]. THERE CAME THERE CERTAIN JEWS FROM ANTIOCH AND ICONIUM. Furious zeal that must have been which would travel so far to counteract the missionaries of the Cross, and how bitter and determined it was may be seen by the result. WHO PERSUADED THE PEOPLE - `gained over the crowds,' 'the populace,' or 'the mob' [ peisantes (G3982) tous (G3588) ochlous (G3793)]....

− 19._There came. _Paul and Barnabas can hardly stay the people from doing sacrifice; but a company of knaves do, with small ado, persuade them to stone Paul, whom of late they made a god. Whereby appeareth how much more men be bent unto superstition than unto the true worship of God, and how arrogant superstition is, which will always bear the chief sway in appointing the worship of God. The servants of God seek no other thing but to bring men under obedience of him, which is salvation and felicity alone. They challenge to themselves no lordship, they hunt after no gain; and yet the world cannot abide them. For almost all men murmur; and now and then there rise tumults. Those who are thus stubborn against God, they be too ready to believe seducers, and willingly submit themselves to their tyranny. So the Pope had liberty to deceive at his pleasure, and not only to oppress miserable soul...

19-28 See how restless the rage of the Jews was against the gospel of Christ. The people stoned Paul, in a popular tumult. So strong is the bent of the corrupt and carnal heart, that as it is with great difficulty that men are kept back from evil on one side, so it is with great ease they are persuaded to evil on the other side. If Paul would have been Mercury, he might have been worshipped; but if he will be a faithful minister of Christ, he shall be stoned, and thrown out of the city. Thus men who easily submit to strong delusions, hate to receive the truth in the love of it. All who are converted need to be confirmed in the faith; all who are planted need to be rooted. Ministers' work is to establish saints as well as to awaken sinners. The grace of God, and nothing less, effectually establishes the souls of the disciples. It is true, we must count upon much tribulation, but it is en...

Verse Acts 14:19. _THERE CAME THITHER_ CERTAIN _JEWS FROM ANTIOCH_] Those were, no doubt, the same who had raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, at Iconium and Antioch, before: they followed the apostles with implacable malice; and what they could not do _themselves_ they endeavoured to do by _others_, whose minds they first _perverted_, and then _irritated_ to deeds of fell purpose. _AND HAVING STONED PAUL_] Alas! of what real worth is _popular_ _fame_? How _uncertain_, and how _unworthy_ to be counted! These poor heathens acted just like the people of Malta, Acts 28:4. When the viper fastened on the hand of Paul, they concluded he was a _murderer_: when they found it did him no damage, they changed their

AND THERE CAME THITHER CERTAIN JEWS - Not satisfied with having expelled them from Antioch and Iconium, they still pursued them. Persecutors often exhibit a zeal and perseverance in a bad cause which it would be well if Christians evinced in a holy cause. Bad people will often travel further to do evil than good people will to do good; and wicked people often show more zeal in opposing the gospel than professed Christians do in advancing it. ANTIOCH AND ICONIUM - See the notes on Acts 13:14, Acts 13:51. WHO PERSUADED THE PEOPLE - That they were impostors; and who excited their rage against them. AND HAVING STONED PAUL - Whom they were just before ready to

EXPOSITION ACTS 14:1 _Entered _for _went both, _A.V.; _Jews _for _the Jews, _A.V.; _and _for _and also, _A.V.; Greeks for _the Greeks, _A.V. Observe how in every case Greeks are found attending the synagogue. SO SPAKE, etc. This illustrates the statement in Romans 10:17, that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." ACTS 14:2 _The Jews that were disobedient _for _the unbelieving Jews, _A.V. and T.R.; _stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them, _etc., for _stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds, _etc., A.V. The Jews that were disobedien

AND THERE CAME THITHER CERTAIN JEWS,.... Either just at the same time, or however whilst the apostles were in this city: in four manuscripts of Beza's, and in some other copies, it is read, "as they abode there, and taught, there came", c. These Jews were inveterate enemies of the apostles, and seemed to have followed them from place to place, on purpose to oppose them, and to stir up the people against them, and to hinder the success of their ministry all they could: for these came FROM ANTIOCH not Antioch in Syria, but in Pisidia: where they had contradicted and blasphemed the word of God, and was the reason why the apostles turned to the Gentiles, Acts 13:45. AND ICONIUM: where also the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles against the apostles, and both of them made an assault upon them, to use them ill,...

ACTS 14:19 evph/lqan de. … kai. pei,santej tou.j o;clouj In the Western text the abruptness of the transition to a new scene is softened by the insertion of a circumstantial clause, which is followed by an expansion that may represent, as Lake and Cadbury suggest, “a perverted tradition as to the Judaistic controversy in Galatia.” 291 The expanded form of text, preserved in D (in part) ith syrhmg and other Western witnesses (including the more recently discovered copG67) was reconstructed by A. C. Clark as follows: diatribo,ntwn de. auvtw/n kai. didasko,ntwn evph/lqo,n tinej VIoudai/oi avpo. VIkoni,ou kai. VAntiocei,aj kai. dialegome,nwn auvtw/n parrhsi,a| e;peisan tou.j o...

CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The work in Iconium and the persecution of the Apostles (Acts 14:1)._ 2. In Derbe and Lystra; the Impotent Man healed (Acts 14:7). 3. The Stoning of Paul and further ministries (Acts 14:19). 4. The Return to Antioch (Acts 14:25). Iconium was a Phrygian town, bordering on Lycaonia. Here again the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles. They abode there a long time, and in spite of opposition and persecution they spoke with much boldness the Word of God. Signs and wonders were also done by their hands. When their lives were threatened by the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles, they fled to Lystra and Der

LYSTRA. Lystra, 25 miles SW. of Iconium, 10 miles off the trade route, in a secluded glen. Lystra and Derbe were the two cities of the Lycaonian region of Galatia; Roman influence was strong there, and Lystra was a Roman colony. The cure of a lame man in connexion with the preaching leads to serious consequences. The incident reminds us forcibly of Acts 3:2; in both cases the lameness is congenital, and the man leaps. In this case, however, faith plays the part it does in the Gospels; it is awakened apparently by Paul's preaching. Of the language of Lycaonia nothing is now known; _the_ mention of it is like a mist over the whole story. It is not asserted that Paul and Barnabas understood that language; but we know that Greek was currently spoken in the district. The recognition of the missionaries as divine beings (cf....